I can just see the first test of a long stretch of track, where the orb/carrier speeds up, takes a corner, and suddenly *gasp* spawns a leak, which quickly evacuates the tube. This public fear would have to be throw away before anything like this could possibly take hold as something feasable, not counting the economical forces which will keep it from taking off.
Interestingly enough, a large amount of market share of Square is owned by Sony, which also sells PCs. However, I have yet to see any announcement of Square products being shipped on Sony PCs. It seems strange that the reverse is not the truth.. is there something going on behind the scences here?
I was hoping this would talk a little more about the mechanical aspects of building the actual driver, instead of being mostly a guide to fitting a sub into a box. Or am I just missing something?
If by lengthy you mean more than one page.. let me get this straight, now the slashdot editors are not only too lazy to check for reposts, they're too lazy to read a couple pages? I bet I could dig up a better qualifier for a Microsoft-laden article than "somewhat lengthy".
It's things like this that make me wonder if slashdot editors actually read slashdot. I mean, cmon guys, at least pretend to believe in what you're preaching:)
It's a sad state of affairs when a fantastic game that still looks great today has to have its graphics improved to sate the appetites of those with a sweet tooth for eye candy.
Compared to today's standards, q1 doesn't have much going for it. And what's wrong with adding more eye candy? Once you've got a great game play-wise, the only route to take is to improve it visually. I think it's great that people are still polishing q1 up.. its kind of like finding an old piece of art and cleaning it up.
Licensor shall pay to Licensee fifty percent (50%) of the Net Proceeds from the use and distribution of the Games through the Website or other electronic delivery mechanism. For purposes of this Agreement, "Net Proceeds" shall mean all monies received by Licensor for the sale, license or use of the Games If Licensor sells or licenses Licensee's Game as part of a compilation or collection of games, Licensee shall receive its pro rata share of the payments for such compilation or collection. For sales and licenses of Games through "box" or "hard" media channels, the parties shall negotiate in good faith to determine a fair royalty payment and related terms, with the minimum amount being paid to the Licensee being eighty percent (80%) of the Net Proceeds.
Compared to a standard developer/publisher pay ratio, this is relatively high. I believe the norm is around 15-20% developer.
As for getting your game published, this is by far the easiest route one can take. Any game which is deemed profitable by GG will be published, much like any other publisher. Profit does reign supreme here. However, GG has the added advantage of being able to showcase their technology within a game they publish, and has added incentive to publish quality games.
As for placing the fate of your project in the hands of one publisher, consider this. If you go the other route, either spending years to develop an engine, or $250,000 for a AAA engine, and then have to shop around for a publisher who might reject your huge investment in time, you're still taking a risk. Either route you choose, risks exist. However, if you make quality games, you shouldn't have much to worry about.
Actually, comparing a spore of pollen (10-100 microns) with a platelet (2 microns) shows that it would take a very small amount of them to patch the subsequent hole. I really doubt someone would notice the effects of having a hole poked through them at that scale. As for buildings, I'm sure we've seen enough episodes of Law and Order to know that buildings (at least in NY) have an infinite capactiy for bulletholes, roughly 10000 microns.
I don't think 'Administrator hole' has the same feel to it. As long as we aren't using one of their usernames, they're happy, though I'd love to see an official release on a remote domaincontroller hole.
I'm going to hide a cookie in this glass cookie jar over there. If I find out that you ate it, I'll just have to put a new cookie in the jar and hide it somewhere else.
I currently work in a lab primarily focused on dealing with end-users of GIS. We run a pure windows 2000 setup, though we used to have a few solaris machines sitting around for advanced projects. One issue that comes up with all of them is the ability to print.
We originally started running our print spooler off a netware box, which had the tendency to crash every few days. Then, we tried a unix box, which still had issues with crashing. Now, we use a win2k box for printer spooling, and the print spooler crashes after about 12 hours of use. This is a major pain for people needing to export stuff to paper.
Seriously though, if this isn't a show of how much of a monopoly they are, I don't know what is. Next thing you know, they'll force MS-TCP/IP out, and have a similar agreement saying that anything not under their license is not permitted.
How would Microsoft react if suddenly the open-source community decided that anything under the GNU could not inter-operate with microsoft products? I think MS would flip out kill whole town.
"These weigh 69 to 95 pounds, depending on the model, can carry a person up to 250 pounds plus cargo up to 75 pounds. With that much mass, even traveling at 12.5 miles an hour, the virtual laws of physics say they won't be able to stop on a dime."
Apparantly, we've been scammed by educators everywhere.
IPv6 will fix a lot of problems, but one nasty side effect is that we're going to end up with addresses that look like 3ffe:400:34:fd01::1, instead of the easily memorizable four octets. When that day comes, it's going to be a lot harder to shout down the IP of the game server you're playing on down the hall.
"Oh, I'm on three-f-f-e-four,four-zero-zero,three-four,f-d-zer o-one,not(?),one. What's taking you so long?!?"
As long as I can remember, I have always hated the journalistic hogwash that gets thrown into places like PC Magazine, Windows Magazine, etc. Half their articles are just buzzwords and their own interpretation of them. I'm sure there are "review lobbyists" of some sort from software publishers that push for softer reviews of their products. As an effect of this, I would guess that more products are rated highly than those graded harshly, even though a large amount of software out there is utter crap (especially closed-source commercial stuff).
Personally, I enjoy reviews from actual gamers, like the horde at shacknews. Seeing multiple opinions of a game helps put it into perspective, taking the subjecticism out. However, these types of reviews usually don't come out until after the game is released, so the first wave of gamers are usually influenced by the larger, lobbied reviewers.
I guess what im trying to say here is that waiting a little while for a game to be released and tested by the masses might be worth popping $50 for something that isn't what you expected it to be *Cough*daikatana*cough.
go find the computer lab graveyard. set up maybe 10 of them, each with 4 soundcards. now, run 4 copies of soundforge on each computer, each one listening to a different sound input channel. make them listen continuously, each computer writing one big file for each stream.
find yourself 40 tape decks, and either use them at normal 1x speed, or use the above solution for cutting your sample rate in four to accomodate a 4x playback.
i recall either a built-in feature or some plugin that allows you to split a wave file into segments based on noise thresholds, just set this to maybe 30 seconds of silence to split the tracks up.
or, you could set up a macro program, and bind one key to save an existing wave file, and open a new one. bind this to 4 keys, and you'll easily be able to control 4 streams.
assuming that you have a thousand tapes, thats about 40 days worth of playtime, and so this method should take 1/4 to 1 day to complete the ripping. as for the encoding, use some mass encoder. you could even use a network share and write a script to encode when a file isnt written to anymore.
even better yet, find one big lecture class, and pass them out as extra credit, for anyone who'll rip them.
it seems as if he was framed.. there's probably a lot of background that isnt being shown here, maybe him getting too snotty with administration, or jealousy over his uber-l33tness, or possibly an alien conspiracy. either way, the courts are definately not going to let him go, oregon is notorious for two things: hippies and guns, both of which keep authority in the wrong hands. anyone hear about the $30mil campout at university of oregon? my god that was dumb. point being, he's screwed. poor guy.
after this resolves, im going to assume that the press is going to start using "perl" as a buzzword synonomous with hacker, cracker, and the like. now, we all know microsoft would much rather have us use something other than perl to do our business, and this is the perfect chance for them to accomplish their next step in global takeover.
next, they're going to confuse the word perl with the oyster-rock pearl, and all fisheries will have to follow pearl-free sanctions on their oyster catches.
In its settlement proposal, the Justice Department opted to let Microsoft remove access to bundled features, such as Web browsers and media players, rather than the actual programs.
can someone tell me what the difference between a web browser/media player and a program is?
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I believe this was already covered:
Come on mods, check your sources!
I can just see the first test of a long stretch of track, where the orb/carrier speeds up, takes a corner, and suddenly *gasp* spawns a leak, which quickly evacuates the tube. This public fear would have to be throw away before anything like this could possibly take hold as something feasable, not counting the economical forces which will keep it from taking off.
How do you _really_ know they're female? Isn't that half the problem.. guys play as girls?
Interestingly enough, a large amount of market share of Square is owned by Sony, which also sells PCs. However, I have yet to see any announcement of Square products being shipped on Sony PCs. It seems strange that the reverse is not the truth.. is there something going on behind the scences here?
I was hoping this would talk a little more about the mechanical aspects of building the actual driver, instead of being mostly a guide to fitting a sub into a box. Or am I just missing something?
If by lengthy you mean more than one page.. let me get this straight, now the slashdot editors are not only too lazy to check for reposts, they're too lazy to read a couple pages? I bet I could dig up a better qualifier for a Microsoft-laden article than "somewhat lengthy".
It's things like this that make me wonder if slashdot editors actually read slashdot. I mean, cmon guys, at least pretend to believe in what you're preaching :)
It's a sad state of affairs when a fantastic game that still looks great today has to have its graphics improved to sate the appetites of those with a sweet tooth for eye candy.
Compared to today's standards, q1 doesn't have much going for it. And what's wrong with adding more eye candy? Once you've got a great game play-wise, the only route to take is to improve it visually. I think it's great that people are still polishing q1 up.. its kind of like finding an old piece of art and cleaning it up.
Compared to a standard developer/publisher pay ratio, this is relatively high. I believe the norm is around 15-20% developer.
As for getting your game published, this is by far the easiest route one can take. Any game which is deemed profitable by GG will be published, much like any other publisher. Profit does reign supreme here. However, GG has the added advantage of being able to showcase their technology within a game they publish, and has added incentive to publish quality games.
As for placing the fate of your project in the hands of one publisher, consider this. If you go the other route, either spending years to develop an engine, or $250,000 for a AAA engine, and then have to shop around for a publisher who might reject your huge investment in time, you're still taking a risk. Either route you choose, risks exist. However, if you make quality games, you shouldn't have much to worry about.
Actually, comparing a spore of pollen (10-100 microns) with a platelet (2 microns) shows that it would take a very small amount of them to patch the subsequent hole. I really doubt someone would notice the effects of having a hole poked through them at that scale. As for buildings, I'm sure we've seen enough episodes of Law and Order to know that buildings (at least in NY) have an infinite capactiy for bulletholes, roughly 10000 microns.
I don't think 'Administrator hole' has the same feel to it. As long as we aren't using one of their usernames, they're happy, though I'd love to see an official release on a remote domaincontroller hole.
I'm going to hide a cookie in this glass cookie jar over there. If I find out that you ate it, I'll just have to put a new cookie in the jar and hide it somewhere else.
I currently work in a lab primarily focused on dealing with end-users of GIS. We run a pure windows 2000 setup, though we used to have a few solaris machines sitting around for advanced projects. One issue that comes up with all of them is the ability to print.
We originally started running our print spooler off a netware box, which had the tendency to crash every few days. Then, we tried a unix box, which still had issues with crashing. Now, we use a win2k box for printer spooling, and the print spooler crashes after about 12 hours of use. This is a major pain for people needing to export stuff to paper.
Seriously though, if this isn't a show of how much of a monopoly they are, I don't know what is. Next thing you know, they'll force MS-TCP/IP out, and have a similar agreement saying that anything not under their license is not permitted.
How would Microsoft react if suddenly the open-source community decided that anything under the GNU could not inter-operate with microsoft products? I think MS would flip out kill whole town.
You're not a true lanner unless your main form of exercise is hauling your computer around.
"These weigh 69 to 95 pounds, depending on the model, can carry a person up to 250 pounds plus cargo up to 75 pounds. With that much mass, even traveling at 12.5 miles an hour, the virtual laws of physics say they won't be able to stop on a dime."
Apparantly, we've been scammed by educators everywhere.
sometime around 2080, the copyright on tux will run out. oh wait, a mascot which isn't copyrighted.. who's idea was this?
I think these would be far more versatile devices if instead of looking like a rhino horn, they implemented a bottle-opener.
a group of coders who choose to make our lives miserable. But now, there is proof that they will always win.
IPv6 will fix a lot of problems, but one nasty side effect is that we're going to end up with addresses that look like 3ffe:400:34:fd01::1, instead of the easily memorizable four octets. When that day comes, it's going to be a lot harder to shout down the IP of the game server you're playing on down the hall.
r o-one,not(?),one. What's taking you so long?!?"
"Oh, I'm on three-f-f-e-four,four-zero-zero,three-four,f-d-ze
As long as I can remember, I have always hated the journalistic hogwash that gets thrown into places like PC Magazine, Windows Magazine, etc. Half their articles are just buzzwords and their own interpretation of them. I'm sure there are "review lobbyists" of some sort from software publishers that push for softer reviews of their products. As an effect of this, I would guess that more products are rated highly than those graded harshly, even though a large amount of software out there is utter crap (especially closed-source commercial stuff).
Personally, I enjoy reviews from actual gamers, like the horde at shacknews. Seeing multiple opinions of a game helps put it into perspective, taking the subjecticism out. However, these types of reviews usually don't come out until after the game is released, so the first wave of gamers are usually influenced by the larger, lobbied reviewers.
I guess what im trying to say here is that waiting a little while for a game to be released and tested by the masses might be worth popping $50 for something that isn't what you expected it to be *Cough*daikatana*cough.
go find the computer lab graveyard. set up maybe 10 of them, each with 4 soundcards. now, run 4 copies of soundforge on each computer, each one listening to a different sound input channel. make them listen continuously, each computer writing one big file for each stream.
find yourself 40 tape decks, and either use them at normal 1x speed, or use the above solution for cutting your sample rate in four to accomodate a 4x playback.
i recall either a built-in feature or some plugin that allows you to split a wave file into segments based on noise thresholds, just set this to maybe 30 seconds of silence to split the tracks up.
or, you could set up a macro program, and bind one key to save an existing wave file, and open a new one. bind this to 4 keys, and you'll easily be able to control 4 streams.
assuming that you have a thousand tapes, thats about 40 days worth of playtime, and so this method should take 1/4 to 1 day to complete the ripping. as for the encoding, use some mass encoder. you could even use a network share and write a script to encode when a file isnt written to anymore.
even better yet, find one big lecture class, and pass them out as extra credit, for anyone who'll rip them.
it seems as if he was framed.. there's probably a lot of background that isnt being shown here, maybe him getting too snotty with administration, or jealousy over his uber-l33tness, or possibly an alien conspiracy. either way, the courts are definately not going to let him go, oregon is notorious for two things: hippies and guns, both of which keep authority in the wrong hands. anyone hear about the $30mil campout at university of oregon? my god that was dumb. point being, he's screwed. poor guy.
after this resolves, im going to assume that the press is going to start using "perl" as a buzzword synonomous with hacker, cracker, and the like. now, we all know microsoft would much rather have us use something other than perl to do our business, and this is the perfect chance for them to accomplish their next step in global takeover.
next, they're going to confuse the word perl with the oyster-rock pearl, and all fisheries will have to follow pearl-free sanctions on their oyster catches.
here's another great example of processed media:
In its settlement proposal, the Justice Department opted to let Microsoft remove access to bundled features, such as Web browsers and media players, rather than the actual programs.
can someone tell me what the difference between a web browser/media player and a program is?